The Virgin Suicides

Time for another movie review by Mary!

The Virgin Suicides. Wow. I watched it last night and I am not sure if it was because I was also putting away laundry/doing chores in my room at the same time or if it was due to the depth of this movie, but it's been a long time since I've felt like I need to watch it again to get everything.

From what I gathered, the movie is told by a narrator and it is all a flashback. The main story is about a family in the mid to late 70's. The parents are incredibly strict on their 5 daughters. The youngest commits suicide and the family seems to become an urban legend of sorts. The neighborhood boys (now the narrator) fall in love with the remaining girls. Upon the advice of a therapist, the parents start allowing the girls to have friends over, and go out on occasion. Lux (Kirsten Dunst) ends up staying out all night after homecoming and their home becomes a virtual prison. The girls are taken out of school and forbidden contact with outsiders. In the end, they develop communications with the boys and invite them all over one night after the parents go to bed. The boys discover them all dead [yeah, spoiler, but the name of the movie is the virgin suicides so you had to know it was coming.]

I'm going to watch it again tonight for further reflection.

The screenplay was written and directed by Sophia Coppola, based on the book of the same title. She does an amazing job of capturing the boys' love for the girls, the strictness of the parents ... I think she is an amazing director, but it probably is genetic ;) .

Names to note :
Kirsten Dunst
Josh Hartnett